Theory of art

Expressionismus ist eine künstlerische Bewegung, die oft mit bestimmten Zentren verbunden wird: In seiner Deutung als deutsche Kunstrichtung zeichnet sich Deutschland als Ort des Expressionismus ab, dabei wird er vorzugsweise mit konkreten Orten verknüpft.

First published in 1952, John Constable and the Fishers is based on original letters which have never been published in full before.

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art.

India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar.

This book reclaims Hegel's notion of the "e;end of art"e;-or, more precisely, of "e;art's past character"e;-not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology.

In this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the "e;creative spirit"e; in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator.

First published in 1984.

One of Isaac Newton's most influential works, this classic treatise on the principles of colour and light presents his groundbreaking experiments and discoveries regarding the colour spectrum and the nature of light.

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism.

Living through the Covid-19 global pandemic has changed the way that we experience our lives, the way that we relate to one-another, and the way that we engage with the world.

Improvisation is crucial to a wide range of artistic activities - most prominently, perhaps, in music, but extending to other fields of experience such as literature and pedagogy.

He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning.

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia, Austro Hungary, Germany, and Russia.

This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present.

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of Cold War cosmopolitanism.

This book is an exploration of the concept of in-betweenness, as it occurs within the process of moving between the author's root culture and adopted culture, from her perspective as an immigrant creative arts therapist.

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.

In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative.

Wie werden Prozesse in den zeitgenössischen Künsten stillgestellt?

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean.

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies?

Although few philosophers agree about what it is for something to be art, most, if not all, agree on one thing: art must be in some sense intention dependent.

Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has begun to attract attention under the rubrics of 'olfactory art' or 'scent art.

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What images come to mind with the words "e;women"e;, "e;aging"e;, "e;old"e;, even "e;elderly"e;?

When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude.

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment.

Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history.

In an age where art history's questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative.

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity.

The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work was created and when the historian addresses the objects at hand, play in informing their interpretations.

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate Art.

Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion places philosophical approaches at the heart of contemporary fashion studies.

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize powerIn this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable properties.

This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts.

In 2018, the artist Elisa Rose and the musician Gary Danner will have been involved in digital art for 30 years as STATION ROSE/STR.

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way.

The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas - such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) - were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful.

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity.

In The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, Renato Barilli examines the history of artistic style in relation to scientific discovery.

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.